Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, a new weekly discussion that searches for the truth about psychiatric prescription drugs and mental health care worldwide.

This podcast is part of Mad in America’s mission to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care. We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change.

On the podcast over the coming weeks, we will have interviews with experts and those with lived experience of the psychiatric system.

Thank you for joining us as we discuss the many issues around rethinking psychiatric care around the world.

On MIA Radio this week, MIA’s Peter Simons interviewed David
Cohen, PhD, a social worker, professor of social welfare, and
Associate Dean for Research at the Luskin School of Public Affairs
of the University of California, Los Angeles. He discussed his
path to becoming a researcher focused on mental health,
coercive practices, and discontinuation from psychiatric
drugs.

He studies the social construction of psychoactive drug
effects, the union of law and psychiatry within a
criminalization/medicalization system and envisions
alternatives to the current mental health industrial complex and
the medicalization of everyday life. He has also taught in Canada
and France, and for over 20 years held a private practice to help
people withdraw from psychiatric drugs.

About the Podcast

Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, a new weekly discussion that searches for the truth about psychiatric prescription drugs and mental health care worldwide.
This podcast is part of Mad in America’s mission to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care and mental health. We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change.
On the podcast over the coming weeks, we will have interviews with experts and those with lived experience of the psychiatric system. Thank you for joining us as we discuss the many issues around rethinking mental health around the world.
For more information visit madinamerica.com
To contact us email podcasts@madinamerica.com